In the post-cold war context, these divisions, which in many cases had been suppressed or managed through the bipolar control mechanisms of the superpowers, found violent expression as the nature of war shifted from inter-State confrontations to predominantly inter-communal conflict in which civilians are the main victims. At the same time, the breaking
Después de la guerra fría esas divisiones, que en muchos casos habían sido suprimidas o sometidas a los mecanismos bipolares de control de las superpotencias, pasaron a manifestarse de forma violenta a medida que el carácter de la guerra pasó del enfrentamiento entre Estados a conflictos predominantemente entre comunidades cuyas principales víctimas son civiles.